CHAP. XIX.
General Directions, and particular Cases of Conscience, •bo•t Contracts in general, and about Buying and selling, borrowing and lending, and Usury in particular. p. 113
Tit. 1. General Directions against injurious bargaining and contracts, ibid.
Tit. 2. Cases about Justice in Contracts. p. 114.
Q. 1. Must I in all Cases do as I would be done by?
Q. 2. Is a Son bound by the Contracts which Parents or Guardians made for him in his Infancy?
Q 3. Is one obliged by a Contract made in ignorance or mistake of the matter?
Q. 4. Doth the contract of a man drunk, or in passion or melancholy bind him?
Q 5. May another hold such a one to his contract, or if he give or play away his money?
Q. 6. Am I obliged by Covenanting words without a Covenanting intent?
Q. 7. May I promise a Robber money to save my life, or to save a greater commodity?
Q. 8. May I give money to a Judge or Magistrate to hire him to do me justice, and not to wrong me, or not to persecute me?
Q. 9. If I make such a contract, may the Magistrate take it of me?
Q 10. If I promise money to an Officer or Robber under a force, am I bound to pay it when the necessity is over? So of other constrained promises.
Q. 11. May I promise a Thief or Bribe-taker to conceal him, and must I keep that promise?
Q. 12. Must I keep a promise which I was drawn into by deceit?
Q 13. Is it a Covenant when neither of the contracting parties understand each other?
Q. 14. Must I stand to a bargain made for me by a friend or servant, to my injury?
Q. 15. If I say I will give one this or that, am I bound to give it him?
Q 16. Doth a mental promise not uttered oblige?
Q. 17. May I promise to do a thing simply unlawful, without a purpose to perform it, to save my life?
Q. 18. May any thing otherwise unlawful become a duty upon a promise to do it?
Q. 19. May he that promised for a reward to promote another's sin, take the reward when he hath done it?
⟨image 14⟩Q. 20. Am I bound by a contract without witness or legal form?
Q 21. May an Office in a Court of Justice be bought for money?
Q. 22. May a place of Magistracy or Judicature be bought?
Q. 23. May one sell a Church Benefice or Orders?
Q. 24 May one buy Orders or a Benefice?
Q. 25. May I give money to Servants or Officers to assist my Suit?
Q. 26. May I after give by way of gratitude to the Bishop, Patron? &c.
Q. 27.
CHAP. XIX.
General Directions, and particular Cases of Conscience, •bo•t Contracts in general, and about Buying and selling, borrowing and lending, and Usury in particular. p. 113
Tit. 1. General Directions against injurious bargaining and contracts, ibid.
Tit. 2. Cases about Iustice in Contracts. p. 114.
Q. 1. Must I in all Cases do as I would be done by?
Q. 2. Is a Son bound by the Contracts which Parents or Guardians made for him in his Infancy?
Q 3. Is one obliged by a Contract made in ignorance or mistake of the matter?
Q. 4. Doth the contract of a man drunk, or in passion or melancholy bind him?
Q 5. May another hold such a one to his contract, or if he give or play away his money?
Q. 6. Am I obliged by Covenanting words without a Covenanting intent?
Q. 7. May I promise a Robber money to save my life, or to save a greater commodity?
Q. 8. May I give money to a Iudge or Magistrate to hire him to do me justice, and not to wrong me, or not to persecute me?
Q. 9. If I make such a contract, may the Magigistrate take it of me?
Q 10. If I promise money to an Officer or Robber under a force, am I bound to pay it when the necessity is over? So of other constrained promises.
Q. 11. May I promise a Thief or Bribe-taker to conceal him, and must I keep that promise?
Q. 12. Must I keep a promise which I was drawn into by deceit?
Q 13. Is it a Covenant when neither of the contracting parties understand each other?
Q. 14. Must I stand to a bargain made for me by a friend or servant, to my injury?
Q. 15. If I say I will give one this or that, am I bound to give it him?
Q 16. Doth a mental promise not uttered oblige?
Q. 17. May I promise to do a thing simply unlawful, without a purpose to perform it, to save my life?
Q. 18. May any thing otherwise unlawful become a duty upon a promise to do it?
Q. 19. May he that promised for a reward to promote anothers sin, take the reward when he hath done it?
⟨image 14⟩Q. 20. Am I bound by a contract without witness or legal form?
Q 21. May an Office in a Court of Iustice be bought for money?
Q. 22. May a place of Magistracy or Iudicature be bought?
Q. 23. May one sell a Church Benefice or Orders?
Q. 24 May one buy Orders or a Benefice?
Q. 25. May I give money to Servants or Officers to assist my Suit?
Q. 26. May I after give by way of gratitude to the Bishop, Patron? &c.
Q. 27.
